Inanis.net is now running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit. I was able to move the database and file base over from the old install to the new install easily. For some reason, last time I tried it the --all-databases tag didn’t work and didn’t dump properly. Blah.
Just a few more things to finish and all will be supah cool.
Really, all I did was install some updates and somehow (read: it’s my fault), the swap file on the server went away and then the server refused to boot. I fixed it, so it’s all good.
Long story short: I made changes to try to fix something and I made it worse. The server has been upgraded about a billion times and really just needs a clean install. I just have to figure out how to do that seamlessly. Easier said than done.
I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed again to give SimCity 4 another go. All updates installed, repository Wine installed, unofficial nVidia 180.11 driver installed (because 180.22 killed X so bad I couldn’t even get a tty login. Go figure.) I even got the monitor working pretty quickly. I hacked some stuff that “should” make SC4 run faster.
SimCity 4 still doesn’t run as fast as in Windows. It’s almost passable, but not quite. I’ll keep playing for a week and see what happens.
Oh, and Inanis Glass 1.3 is almost complete. Bugs fixed, features added and translate-ability coming soon. I may even be able to throw in some of the translations for free, with the help of those who volunteered their translation skills, of course.
Oh, and finally – Looks like the Inanis.net server has stabilized. The probable culprit: no swap partition. If it goes down again after this, I swear I am going to blow a gasket.
I was challenged by Zarek to try SimCity4 on Ubuntu 8.10 because I was “complaining” about Ubuntu performance. This will be the second time I have done this, but the first time I will have blogged about it. Here’s what happened… Continue reading
I decided to install Ubutnu 8.04 on The-Beast as a test.
The video card was an issue (as always in Ubuntu for some reason), but I got that fixed. Everything else works perfectly fine. Audio and everything. SMB shares. It’s neato.
My favorite feature: the compositing engine. Vista style features with better responsiveness. Doesn’t play SimCity 4 . .maybe . . dunno.
Let’s play with this and see where it goes.